New York State Budget Goes into Overtime as Climate Law Becomes Focus of Negotiations
It feels like déjà vu: Governor Hochul is yet again trying to weaken NY’s landmark climate law.
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Korean solar industry makes unprecedented legal challenge to “green” credentials of biomass energy
Canadian citizen joins suit against Korean government alleging irreparable harm to forests and climate from use of British Columbia wood pellets
EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy: Burning Trees Isn’t Green
Finance standards reject EU’s biomass “sustainability criteria” as not protecting forests and the climate
Enviro Advocates Call Out MA Gov. Baker For Promoting Dirty Fuels As Renewable Energy
If the Baker administration gets their way, more so-called “clean energy” in MA will come from burning garbage and biomass
EPA rears up, acknowledges co-firing biomass with coal increases GHG emissions
Combustion physics lend support to a minor rebellion against lawmakers who legislated biomass as “carbon neutral”
Virginia Admits Biomass Isn’t Carbon Neutral, But Treats It As Zero Emissions in Climate Plan
Dominion-Flavored Doublespeak Will Weaken Climate Progress
The IPCC’s Recipe for a Livable Planet: Grow Trees, Don’t Burn Them
Only one pathway avoids dangerous temperature rise without relying on unscalable and unproven technologies.
New UK Biomass Policy Removes Subsidies For High-Carbon Wood Pellets
Even ignoring the CO2 coming out the smokestack, the new policy sets a lifecycle emissions standard that imported wood pellets can’t meet
Pruitt’s parting shot: a Clean Power Plan that will actually increase CO2 emissions
Co-firing biomass with coal will increase emissions, decrease power plant efficiency, and increase forest destruction, to boot.
New Study: Biomass Energy Has Big Climate Impact Even Under Best Case Scenario
Burning wood for power undermines efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, even under industry best-case scenarios.
